Textures of Kyoto, and the freedom within freedom (LIVE w/Zubin)

A live house tour from a Kyoto Airbnb on the last morning before Osaka, wandering from tatami floors and garden-view toilets into a conversation about psychedelics, a strange recurring dream about medical school, and why nothing here, including this "spiritual" trip to Japan, is any more magic than anything else.

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0:00 Suddenly live, from Kyoto on the last morning there

1:35 A tour of the Airbnb begins, near the Gion district

3:00 The dining room, the art, and the lighting fixtures

4:45 The entryway and the sliding partitions

6:24 Stepping outside barefoot into the heat

7:38 The minimalist kitchen and the combo washer dryer

8:32 The tatami mat floor and the central courtyard garden

9:58 Sitting in the low seat before dawn

11:36 Walking toward the bathroom and the reflective wallpaper

13:12 The toilet room with its own private garden view

14:16 The shower room, the jets, and the wooden soaking tub

18:15 Comments begin, garden views and Zen aesthetics

20:18 Explaining the bidet to Connie

22:34 Plans for the day, heading to Uji for tea and shrines

24:02 Wondering about the wooden tub and how it holds up

24:54 The cemetery in the hills from the day before

26:02 Missing routines, oatmeal, and the microbiome

27:02 A strange recurring dream about going back to medical school

31:47 The self returning fully within the dream itself

32:25 No self doesn't mean no suffering, full-on emotions instead

34:14 A question about Connor Murphy and psychedelic psychosis

35:33 Ketamine, ecstasy, and why nothing is really causative

37:35 Kyoto as where the journey began back in 2023

38:00 Everything was magic then, now it's just textures

40:16 Why these live shows happen, a practiceless practice

41:24 Trying to bring the aesthetic home and why it wouldn't work

44:06 A ketamine story about seeing through the separate self

46:07 Wrapping up, heading to Uji for the day